EN Summary: Are you intrigued about the collar of the V1240 Guy Laroche dress? I certainly was; this was the detail that first caught my eye about this dress. Today finished the collar and recorded all the steps along the way! Keep reading the full article!

EN: The collar of this dress is a close fitting high round collar with two folded overlays on the outer side, imitating a turtleneck (because the final effect almost looks as if it folds over). The inner and outer collar pieces (on top) are interfaced with sew-in interfacing (silk organza in this case). There's a lower folded overlay (middle) and an upper folded overlay (below); all the pieces have notches that I've clipped into the fabric, large circles, small circles and squares (alignment dots) that I've marked with tailor tacks, along with thread basted Center Back and Center Front lines.

EN: The overlays are folded lengthwise with wrong sides together (the fold line is marked on the pattern) and placed on top of the outer collar piece, in the order shown below; I did the same with the paper pattern, aligning notches, small&large circles and squares, to make sure everything is lined up as it's supposed to be:

EN: After placing and securing the overlays, the inner collar piece is placed on top of the outer piece (right sides together) and stitched from the edge-most square (marking the left back armhole placement), around the collar edge and ending on the small circle (marking the left front armhole placement). The inner collar bottom edge allowance between these markings has been previously pressed under. The seam allowances were graded, clipped at curves and the corners were trimmed off as seen:

EN: The front and back neckline of the dress are sewn to the outer collar between the respective markings (squares for the back and small&large circle for the front), the seam allowances are pressed up towards the collar and the inner collar is fell-stitched on top of the seam (as with any regular collar application procedure):

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